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Bios
Hubert Francis - Donald Marshall Senior
Hubert Francis is from the Elsipogtog Reserve in NB. He is an international recording artist. His Aboriginal Band, Eagle Feather's ''Message From A Drum'' received two Juno nominations, ECMAs and a Native American Music nomination.
Hubert is a cast member of Drum, a Brookes Diamond Production out of Halifax and is also a member of Alan Syliboy's band The Thundermakers! He was born and raised in Elsipogtog. Hubert has sometimes been described as a Goodwill Ambassador and has been educating and informing the public through his Aboriginal Rock Music. Hubert is proud to be reprising his role of Donald Marshall Senior.
Graham Marshall - Nak, The Narrator
Graham is an educator, ambassador, and musician. A member of the Membertou Band Council, Graham is also Industry Liaison Coordinator for the Nova Scotia Indigenous Tourism Enterprise Network.
An alumni of Cape Breton University, Graham is currently artist in residence and one of the founding members of the Son’s of Membertou musical group. Graham is a great believer in making connections, building trust and moving forward; recognizing the past but always striving toward reconciliation. As Donald Marshall’s cousin, Graham is excited to narrate this story that is so close to his family and community.
Kylar Johnson - Donald Marshall Junior
Kylar Johnson began his acting career in his high school production of "Legally Blonde" as Professor Callahan. He currently studies at Saint Mary’s University, and participates in their biannual productions. Kylar recently branched out in other mediums outside of the stage with his first role on the big screen as young Jared in Juanita Peter's feature film 8:37 Rebirth. Kylar states that this role has been a life changing experience, fostering a strong desire to continue acting off and on the stage, bringing us to his most recent development in this endeavor, his role as the titular ''junior'', in Lorie Jenner's audio production. It brings to light a story that is often overlooked in the pages of Canadian history in a fun and exciting way. He hopes to work on other similar projects in the future.
Patti Hirtle – Caroline Marshall
A lifelong friend of the playwright, Lorie Jenner, Patti is an artisan, musician, and drummer. She is pleased and proud to reprise her role as Caroline Marshall whom she admires as a stalwart mother and exceptional human being.
Mark Cruickshank - McRae, Harry Warren, RCMP
Mark has acted in and produced theatre productions for many years in a variety of original and classic plays. Mark had taken an extended break from theatre so the radio play production of “junior" allowed Mark to try his hand at voice acting for the first time and again venture forth into performing arts, without having to learn lines. The experience has been rewarding and it was an honour to portray characters involved in such an important story.
"Wyrd bið ful aræd”
Allan Haggett - Officer Murphy, Kinski, Jim Cramer RCMP
Allan was born and raised in Newfoundland. When he moved to Nova Scotia he was bitten by the theater bug. He has participated in dozens of plays and musicals over the last 35 years. He was excited to take part in this very important story about Junior Marshall and about the wider implications for our justice system.
Dave Brumwell - Roy Ebsary, Dr Vick
Dave became involved with theatre in 2005, at the age of 53. Theatre has since been a huge part of his life. He has since written and co-written many plays and theatrical productions, including the pythonesque ''That Penis Thing'', which raised $53,000 for community projects.
Being asked by the wonderful Lorie Jenner, to portray the role of the evil Roy Ebsary, and also Doctor Sanjay Raphael Vick, was a great honour. He very much hopes the listener will be moved by Lorie’s interpretation of this most needed to be told story.
Sue Evans - Cicely, Psychologist
Sue is a veteran performer in professional productions in the UK and a myriad of community productions here in the new world. An actor and singer, she is proud to reprise her role as Cicely and the psychologist in ''junior''.
Randy O’Malley – Chief McKinley
Randy first became active in theatre with the Chester Drama Society in the early eighties and performed in several successful productions in the eighties and nineties. After a long hiatus, Randy returned to the stage for the read through of ‘junior’ in 2018. He is very excited to be involved again in the audio production of '‘junior’' and hopes you enjoy it.
Vince Morash – Jimmy O’Neil, Steve Abramson, Mitch, Dolph Everson
Now residing on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, Vince was raised in the fishing community of Peggy’s Cove. Starting his working life as a fisherman, he has gone on to live on both coasts of Canada and enjoy a varied career as equipment operator, bus driver, pulp mill and mine worker, mechanic, airport maintenance worker and retail salesperson. Along the way he has dabbled in music, poetry, art, writing and theatre, producing three CD’s of original songs, has paintings in Chester’s Going Coastal Gallery and performed in many South Shore Players productions.
Scott Allen - Officer Mike, Guard, Karate Instructor
Scott has performed with the South Shore Players for several years. He enjoys singing, acting and is very pleased to reprise his role as Office Mike in the audio production of ‘junior’.
Mason Mader – Bobby, Maynard Campbell
Mason Mader would describe himself as a charismatic individual. He is a provincial wrestling champion, has appeared in many of the Chester Playhouse after school drama productions and is the Forrest Heights Community School valedictorian for his graduating class. He believes very strongly in ‘being a good kind of dude’ and hopes you- dear lovely listener enjoy this production with all your heart.
Nathan Osmond – John Phillips
Nathan is creative individual with a passion for the arts. Recently moving from Alberta, Nathan performed in the "Wizard of Oz" as the Scarecrow, and the reformed wolf in "The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf" and has ambitious dreams of starring in many more! An athlete, singer, and all round cool human being, (whose worst nightmare is writing bios) Nathan hopes you enjoy his performance as John in ''junior''.
Susan Cruickshank – Dana Ebsary
Susan is a playwright, writer, producer, director and actor. She works as background actor in TV and film. Her produced plays include ‘'The Rum Runner’', ‘'Classic Radio Adventure’', "A Brief Case'’, ‘'The Marble'’ , and ‘'The Christmas Fund Raiser'’. In collaboration with Virginia Bell, she recently wrote ''Vanity Hair'’ a one-act Christmas comedy. She’s directed at least nine plays, including a summer theatre school, acted in over 20 murder mysteries and performed leading and supporting roles on stage for over 40 years.
Dawn Curry - Court Clerk
Dawn's commitment and experience in working with youth and adults on and off stage, combined with her knack for all things technical, make her an invaluable asset. Honoured to be part of the 2018 staged read though of junior, she was quick to embrace the audio recording of junior. Born and raised in Lunenburg, she now calls Chester Basin home
David Findlay – Judge Lewenski
David is a musician, composer, music producer and educator. He has over 75 film and television credits as a composer as well as dozens of other compositions for audio visual productions and critically acclaimed CDs. David is highly experienced in recording music, audio for video, podcast, film or multi-media presentations and as well as recording and co-producing ‘'junior'’ you can catch his performance as the venerable and austere Judge Lewenski!